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It doesn’t affect my job so I have nothing to worry about.
@iluvatar5150 after I saw your post I did some research and I don’t understand the decision not to participate
It’s all politics. Some of it was balking at provisions of Obamacare specifically, some of it was balking at any sort of federal mandate, some of it was not wanting to extend benefits to the wrong people. It seems that some on the right are finally coming around to the fact that some poor folks are their people, too.
They are working towards that goal.
Not many people can work until they’re 77. I’m shooting for 70.They are working towards that goal.
Republicans Call for Retirement Age Hike in Clash With Biden
Republicans Call for Retirement Age Hike in Clash With Biden
The largest caucus of House Republicans called for an increase in the Social Security retirement age Wednesday, setting up a clash with President Joe Biden over spending on popular entitlement programs.news.bgov.com
The Republican Study Committee, which comprises about 80% of House Republicans, called for the Social Security eligibility age to be tied to life expectancy in its fiscal 2025 budget proposal. It also suggests reducing benefits for top earners who aren’t near retirement, including a phase-out of auxiliary benefits for the highest earners.
CURRENT LIFE EXPECTANCY FOR MEN IN AMERICA IS 77 YEARS. This is working until you are expected to die.
This is what republicans want for the elderly....work until you are expected to die.
They are pursuing it. It is in their budget.
Or if the person doesn't believe they're making enough to live on when they're making that amount per hour, they should find a different job. If enough people can find better paying jobs and decide not to work for the business that only pays $7.15 an hour, then it will indeed go out of business. But there are obviously enough people with low enough skills that are willing to take it.
Not if you live in one of the many, many regions of America where the entire regions has criminally low wages and you can't afford to move away?
If those entire regions had those low wages, then prices for things in those regions would have to drop since nobody could afford to buy things otherwise. That's how the law of supply and demand works.
What I mean is that if a region has mostly low paying jobs, then the places that sell things, or rent out apartments, or sell homes won't be charging as much. They couldn't. If they did anyway, they'd have to go out of business.
Before Walmart drove everyone out of business the stores that made the most money were in the poorest communities. If you were going to open a small store or grocery store you wanted it there. They bought everything from right there and didn’t notice that they could travel a few miles and save a massive amount of money.
Why should I have to? Mind you, there would be benefits: universal health care, better education, more PTO, decent public transport, and on and on, all things we could have here. Why don't we?
That's already happened. A lot of stuff sold in poorer areas is still fairly cheap relative to more affluent areas - or more precisely, the products themselves are priced similarly between the two areas, but the poor area only has access to cheap products, while the affluent area has access to expensive luxury goods on top of that.
